Human Rights are necessary for love to survive

The Bill of Rights

The U.S. Bill of Rights was an attempt to
protect the people from the government

This attempt has failed, of course. Even before the chillingly-misnamed Patriot Act was passed in America, most of the Bill of Rights had been neutralized by Congress and the courts. American citizens, for the most part, do not even know the contents of their own Bill of Rights. Relentless pro-government, pro-coercion propaganda in schools and elsewhere has made the idea of such rights seem vaguely suspect and unpatriotic to many.

History suggests this is an extremely dangerous situation. Without the natural rights of people being understood, respected, and enforced -- how can compassion survive? When the people have no rights, horrors await. See the Love and Freedom page on this site for enough examples to remind you of how true that really is.

Each of the first ten amendments to the US constitution -- the Bill of Rights -- is available here as an image file, like the 4th Amendment below. You can view the images now by clicking each below (use your browser's BACK button to return to this page):

Preamble 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

You can download a zipfile with all ten amendments, plus an excerpt from the Preamble, by clicking:

http://paradise-paradigm.net/downloads/rights.zip

Put the files in their own folder on your hard drive and you can use them as a screensaver in WinXP. They also make good wallpaper for your desktop.

When you view these images and read the text they contain, remind yourself that these rights are the highest law of the land in the United States. Neither congress, nor the president, nor the courts can nullify them.

They can, however, ignore the Bill of Rights (if the courts and the people let them get away with it) -- just as a home-invasion robber can ignore the laws against assault and robbery. It has almost reached the point that America -- with the largest, most expensive, and most powerful government in history -- is operating without rules. But the rules are simple and explicit. For example:

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